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No. 603,092. Patented Apr. 26, 1898.

INVEN TOR UNITED STATES PATENT tries.

CHARLES E. STARR, JR., OF CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO WALTER E. HARRINGTON, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 603,092, dated April 26, 1898.

Application filed June 5, 1897. Serial No. 639,549. ill'o mocleLl To aZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that 1, C ARLES E. STARR, J12, a citizen of the United States, residing at Camden,in the county of Camden and State of New 5 Jersey, have invented a new and useful Sign,

of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to signs especially adapted for use in connection with railwaycars or other vehicles; and the objects of my improvements are to afford a device readily adjustable to present different signs, respectively, to correspond with the cars route or destination, also to afford improvement in illuminating such signs. I achieve these oh- I jeots by themeohanism illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of my device. Fig. 2 is a view of same in cross-section on the line as a: of Fig. 1. Fig.

3 is a perspective part View showing detail of hanger suitable to support said sign and clip for securing the sign in the required position after its adjustment. Fig. dis a view in part section of a car hood and sign and a light for.

2 5 illuminating the sign.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

My device consists, essentially, in the two panels 5 and 6 of Fig. 1, joined togetherlon- 3o gitudinally in planes at an angle with each other greater than ninety degrees. These panels may be solid boards or may consist of frames adapted to hold thinner plates, preferably of transparent or translucent material. 3 5 At either end of the said panels, near the angle or point of juncture, are secured pivots 7, adapted to engage with and be supported by the hangers 8, attached to the car, so that when one panel rests in a vertical plane the other will be raised out of view, and vice versa. Suitable clamps, as shown at 9 in Fig.

3, may be attached to the hangers, adapted to move into and out of engagement with either panel to adj ustably secure the sign in the desired position-that is, with the desired panel hanging downward or in a vertical plane and with the other lifted out of the way.

The special advantage of joining the panels together in planes at an obtuse angle, preferably about one hundred degrees, is that when one panel is in display-that is, in a vertical position-the other panel is so lifted that it will neither obstruct the view of the sign in display nor shade it from the light, either natural or artificial, that is intended to illuminate it. In Fig. 4: the sign is shown in solid lines with panel 6 in display, while panel 5 is lifted out of the way. The dotted lines indicate the position of panel 6 when panel 5 is in the display position.

A suitable light or lamp may be employed at the ends of the cars, so placed and reflected as to illuminate the said vertical panel, and in case the same is partly translucentto so illuminate it that both sides of it will be legible at night. In the case of cars employing electric current this illuminating means may be a part of the regular lighting system of the cars, as shown at 10 in Fig. 4.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a car-sign the combination of two panels longitudinally joined together in planes forming an obtuse angle approximating one hundred degrees, whereby when one sign is in display position the other is lifted from all interference therewith, means for pivotally supporting said panels and means for securing same in the required position, substantially as described.

. CHAS. E. STARR, In. VVit-nesses:

JNo. SToKEs ADAMS, E. F. GRACE. 

